A FILM BY David Novack

A FILM BY David Novack

Every 2 weeks, Hiroshima-sized explosions are unleashed upon the mountains of West Virginia. For Coal.

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This documentary deeply entrenches itself in the landscape, conveying both the beauty and the ravagement of the Appalachians.

-Ronnie Schieb, Variety

Synopsis

West Virginia provides coal to produce electricity for half the nation. Ironically, while preserving jobs, coal mining disfigures mountainsides, destroys plant and animal species and spreads toxic groundwater. Yet so effective is the coal industry's public relations campaign promoting "clean coal" that these long-term environmental disasters remain largely unreported. In response, documentary filmmaker David Novack provides an impassioned, harsh exposé of big coal.
"As upsetting as it is informative" -- New York Times